The Ulster Party

• Abbreviations; Introduction: A parliamentary policy; Party, class, and nation; Unionist roots; Parliamentary origins, 1884-1886: Introduction; Irish and British tories, 1884-1885; Organization in Ireland, 1885; Organization in the Commons, January 1886; Summary; The Parliamentary Party, 1885-1910: Party personnel; Contribution to debate; Party discipline; The Ulster Party, the tories, and a policyfor Ireland, 1885-1906: Introduction; Home rule; Land; Irish local government; Catholic higher education; Summary; MP and Constituency, 1885-1911: Introduction; Local funding; External influence and selection; Lord Arthur Hill and selection, 1880-1908; Internal threats, 1885-1910; The Ulster Unionist council; Summary; Ulster Members and Wyndham, 1900-1904: Introduction; Ulster MPs, Wyndham, and MacDonnell, 1900-1904; The Loyalist case against Wyndham; Fightin devolution; Russell and the Ulsterunionists; The 'Young Men' of a Loyalist 'Radical Right'; Walter Long and the Ulsterman, 1905; Summary; The Emergence of Ulster Unionist Militancy, 1905-1911; The McNeill Hypothesis; Tory patrons and Ulster Unionism, 1906-1911; Missionaries in England, 1906-1910; Isolation and Armaments, 1910-1911; Summary; Conclusion

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